“Welcome to Lynchland, A SLIGHT BUT ENJOYABLE DOCUMENTARY DEVOTED TO THE Life and Work of America’s Premier Cinematic Surarealist, Received An Emocial Reception Wednes Fetterno. The Love for David Lynch, Who Died at Age 78 in January, Was Palpable Inside The Premiere in Cannes’ Fable Palais des festivals, with numeros”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
Lynch’s Oldest Son, Riley Lynch, Was on Hand to intraduce of the documentary Alongside it Director, French Filmmasker Stphane Ghez.
“This Festival Really Meant a Lot to My Dad and It’s Just So Cool to Be Here,” SAID RILEY LYNCH, 33 Years Old and an Aspiration Filmmaker Himself. “The Last Time I Was Here Was in 2002 – WHEN My DAD WAS President of the Jury – and I Had my 10th Birthday Party Here. Sharon Stone Brough Out the Cake – Pretty Cool,” He Said. “THANK YOU GUYS SO MUCH FOR MAVING ME. IT’S VERY EMOCAL TIME AND I’V NOT SEEN This Film Yet, so i’m Excited to Watch It With All You.”
With A Runtime of Just One Hour, Welcome to Lynchland Serves As An Introductory Primer on Lynch’s Singular Body of Work, Tracing The Basic Contours of His Life and Legacy, While Hazarding A FEW Rosebud-Likeios for His Carees for His Carees. 1950s-style American Innocence and the Nightmares Lurking in the Shadows.
Structured in Linear Fashion-Anronic Contrast to Lynch’s Famously Non-Linear Narratives-The Documentary MOves Briskly Through The Director’s Career, Beginning Witch Witch EraserheadWHICH HE FAMOUSLY SPENT FIVE YEARS MAKING FOR LESS $ 100,000, Laying The Groundwork for his Lifelong Committee to Artistic Independence and Unfetted Visual Expert. The Elephant Man an Dune Thatn Mark Lynch’s Entry Into the Hollywood System, with the Former A Critical Triumph and the Latter a Torturouse Misfire That Wound Haunt Him for the Rest of His Life.
His respons was Blue VelvetA film that reassesserted his Control and Cemented His Reputation As A Visionary Chronicler of Suburban Darkness. Actress Isabella rossellini reflects on the Film’s Disturbing Material and Autobiographical Elements While Resistance Reductive Interpretations.
Lynch’s Later Trirogy of California-Set Projects, The Palme D’Or-Winning Wild at HeartThe Dreamlike Mulholland Driveand the Fragmented Lost HighwayReceive Thounghtful Attraction, While the Tonal Outlier The Straight Story Goes ConspicUosly unmentioned. Ghez includes commentary from collaboratories Such as Naomi Watts, Laura Dern, and Kyle MacLachlan, As Well As Lynch’s Biographer and Former Partners, Adering Warmth and Inhtners An eccentric “Exegetical Expert” Also Appears, Humorously Acknowledge The Futility of Trying to Pin Down Definitive Meanings in Lynch’s Work.
Darn Makes Impassioned and Thought-Provoking Assertions About the Primacy of Inland Empire In Lynch’s Oeuvre, and the Archival Behind-The-Scenes Footage of the Director at Work on that Freewheeling, Multi-Year Indie Project Is Especialialy Revealer. If Welcome to Lynchland Ends Up Shifting Sentiments Among the Lynch Convertred in Any Way, It Will Likely Be A Reassessment of Inland EmpireWHICH BAFFLED Many Critics at the Time of It Release in 2007 (IT Currently Has A 72% Fresh Rating on Rotten Tomatoes).
Lynch Was A Cannes Regular Throughout His Career and His Pioneering Work Was Recognized Especialy Early in France, Were Signifyticant Potions of His Laterts. Lynch Famously —and Controversially – Won The Palme d’Or with Wild at Heart in 1990, his first appendance in the Festival’s Main Competition. At the Festival’s Now Legendary Awards Ceremony That Year, Lynch and His Cast Were Showered with Bravos and Boos in Equal MeASURE, REFLECTING HOW SURPLY THE ULTRAVALENT Cannes Critics of the Day.